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T-mobile pocket pc windows 2003 upgrade

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yn - 19 Jan 2007 15:04 GMT
I am looking for a pocketpc 2003 upgrade download. I have a T-mobile
pocket
pc 2002. Thanks for the help.
r_z_aret@pen_fact.com - 19 Jan 2007 20:12 GMT
>I am looking for a pocketpc 2003 upgrade download. I have a T-mobile
>pocket
>pc 2002. Thanks for the help.

For Windows CE and platforms (such as Pocket PC) based on it, system
upgrades are entirely the responsibility of the OEM (company that
builds the hardware). For you, that means whoever made your device
(not T-Mobile). You can get leads by using google
(http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search) to look up
mydevice upgrade
where "mydevice" is a stand-in for the actual model you have.
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yn - 20 Jan 2007 02:57 GMT
Thanks. Tried advanced search with no luck. The device is Siemens and
they used to have a download for windows 2002 upgrade. This is no
longer available. Does anybody knows/have the upgrade file?

> >I am looking for a pocketpc 2003 upgrade download. I have a T-mobile
> >pocket
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> Boston, MA 02116
> www.penfact.com
Todd Allcock - 25 Jan 2007 20:34 GMT
> For Windows CE and platforms (such as Pocket PC) based on it, system
> upgrades are entirely the responsibility of the OEM (company that
> builds the hardware). For you, that means whoever made your device
> (not T-Mobile).

No, it's generally the responsibility of who's brand name is on the
device (who, of cours , generally gets the updates from the OEM.)  This
is particularly true of PPC Phones, because additional customizations are
added by the carrier (data settings, logos, etc.)  For example, although
the current T-Mo MDA and Cingular 8125 are both re-branded HTC Wizards,
you get the MDA updates from T-Mo, and the 8125 updates from Cingular.

Since the OP's PPC phone WAS T-Mobile branded, T-Mobile IS (was?) the
"official" distributor of any upgrades.

Unfortunately, that window of opportunity has closed- like many PPC
upgrades, it was only offered on T-Mo's website for a limited time- about
a year or so, IIRC.  Whether that's due to some Microsoft licensing
restriction or just the "manufacturer's" lack of interest, I don't know.

> You can get leads by using google
> (http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search) to look up
> mydevice upgrade
> where "mydevice" is a stand-in for the actual model you have.

The T-Mo PPCPE (Pocket PC Phone Edition) was the original HTC PPC phone
(also sold as the Siemens SX66, and the O2 XDA,) and was the inspiration
for the xda-developers.com website that deals with tweaking, upgrading
and hacking HTC PPC phones.  It's very likely the upgrade is still
available there in one form or the other.  I suspect the legality of
finding it there is questionable, but my sense of legality and ethics
gets fuzzy when it comes to years-old abandonedware...

The ROM image running on my T-Mo MDA comes from that site.  Someone
calling himself Xelencilin took the original HTC ROM and added just the
necessary T-Mo customizations (data settings, etc.) to create a custom
image free of a lot of T-Mo "deadweight," and most importantly (for me)
restored the orginal HTC dialer skin that T-Mo chose to replace with a
garish pink and white one (to match the color scheme of their logo!)

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Herman en Desiree Slagmoolen - 30 Jan 2007 11:58 GMT
Why don't you go to the t-mobile site and click on the business tab.
There you can upgrade.

Deesje
>I am looking for a pocketpc 2003 upgrade download. I have a T-mobile
> pocket
> pc 2002. Thanks for the help.
 
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